An editor at a publishing house encouraged her to write a book about the sea for the general public.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I've enjoyed reading him so much that when I was asked to write a book about him, I agreed to do so.

因为我非常喜欢他的书,所以有人邀请我写本关于他的书的时候，我就答应了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I want to write a book that said that, you know the greatest patriots in our history, have been those people that said to our government : "Hey, you have to live up to your word.

我想写一本书告诉大家，美国历史上最伟大的爱国者，是那些敢于对政府直言不讳的人,嘿，你可不能食言。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In nineteen forty-three, a publisher asked him to write a book giving advice to parents.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He got sufficiently upset about this to write a book called I Am Not Spock where he described all the ways in which he was not a Vulcan.

他非常生气，写了一本书,叫《我不是Spock》，在书中他从各个方面,描述了他不是Vulcan人的证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She decided to write a book about it.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To show that she could do more than just write stories, she wrote a book with Ogden Codman, "The Decoration of Houses."

VOA: special.2010.10.24

In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.

其中一封信，是写给他的一位知名友人，名为，他形容自己,如何写就其最著名的大作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

So we had students do research, quantitative research or qualitative research; we had students do literature reviews in a particular area of interest; work proposals for book they want to write; or workshop proposals and those kinds of things.

我们让学生进行研究，量化研究和质化研究;,我们让学生,就感兴趣的领域写文献观后感;,他们计划写的书的进展计划;,或实验计划等等。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It was very impactful to start a book that way because I doubt that hardly any readers actually write out a check on the spot to UNICEF; but if you don't, then you are in some sense responsible for the loss of 30 lives.

这是一个有力的开场白,因为我认为几乎不会有读者真的,会写张支票把钱寄给联合国儿童基金会,如果你无动于衷,那么你在某种意义上,要为那逝去的30个生命负责

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the most famous of these letters, the lengthy seventh one, he gives us, again, something of an autobiography and tells us a little bit about why he came to write this book.

这些书信中最著名的，是冗长的第七封，他写下类似自传的东西,并简单地讲述了,为何他要写这本巨著。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选